FromFat2Wow!
Full Member
Hello, I am new to this website and I am also new to the Cambridge Diet. I have contacted a counsellor and I am hoping to start in January 2009. This is pending my GP's approval as I am pretty overweight.
I am about 16st 7lbs now having used the weight watchers method to reduce from 19st. I am now at the stuck point. I call it the stuck point because this is where weight loss grinds to a halt and I know from here if I don't do something radical I can only get heavier.
Once upon a time the stuck point used to occur at about 13st and I remember a time when I used to get stuck at about just under 12st. Can you see the trend I am trying to avoid? I'm sure some of you must know what I'm talking about. I don't know why this happens but I am going to throw everything I have at it. CD, LighterLife mag, this website, Beck Diet Solution (CBT), at an appropriate time I'll introduce exercise (walk, gym, run).
I know people are going to try to put me off so I am prepared (I think) to be nasty about it. "Well, my Doctor thinks it's okay. Better than dying early." "Do you know I have obstructive sleep apnoea? The worst thing about this is not the cosying up to a CPAP machine every night, but knowing that I am at greater risk of high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, death."
I hate to be mean but I think friends and family need to get behind me on this one, because the consequences of me not getting myself under control are very serious indeed.
I hope to start a new job in the new year and I pray they don't have a eating culture like the one in my old job. Food everywhere. In the desk drawers, on the filing cabinet, next to the printer. Not to mention any excuse to have a group meal.
This could be a very long post but I'll save some of my other gripes for later.
Bee
I am about 16st 7lbs now having used the weight watchers method to reduce from 19st. I am now at the stuck point. I call it the stuck point because this is where weight loss grinds to a halt and I know from here if I don't do something radical I can only get heavier.
Once upon a time the stuck point used to occur at about 13st and I remember a time when I used to get stuck at about just under 12st. Can you see the trend I am trying to avoid? I'm sure some of you must know what I'm talking about. I don't know why this happens but I am going to throw everything I have at it. CD, LighterLife mag, this website, Beck Diet Solution (CBT), at an appropriate time I'll introduce exercise (walk, gym, run).
I know people are going to try to put me off so I am prepared (I think) to be nasty about it. "Well, my Doctor thinks it's okay. Better than dying early." "Do you know I have obstructive sleep apnoea? The worst thing about this is not the cosying up to a CPAP machine every night, but knowing that I am at greater risk of high blood pressure, stroke, heart attack, death."
I hate to be mean but I think friends and family need to get behind me on this one, because the consequences of me not getting myself under control are very serious indeed.
I hope to start a new job in the new year and I pray they don't have a eating culture like the one in my old job. Food everywhere. In the desk drawers, on the filing cabinet, next to the printer. Not to mention any excuse to have a group meal.
This could be a very long post but I'll save some of my other gripes for later.
Bee